Black Lambs and Grey Falcons: Women Travelling in the Balkans [Paperback]

John B. Allcock (Editor), Antonia Young (Editor)

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Publication Date: January 1, 2000

Revised and Updated with a New Introduction During the 19th century the Balkan countries became the subject of a rather romantic fascination for the public at large. This vision of the area has been created in large measure by the writing of women travelers such as those represented in this volume. The achievements of these women are quite remarkable: in many cases their travels were adventurous, and even dangerous, reaching into parts of the countryside which were remote and hardly known to outsiders. Not only as travelers but also in the fields of medical and military service, scholarship and education, journalism and literature, did these women contribute in very significant ways to the expansion of women's horizons and to the attempt to gain greater freedom for women in society in general. Contents: Editorial Introduction: Black Lambs and Grey Falcons: Outward and Inward Frontiers - Two Victorian Ladies and Bosnian Realities, 1861-1875: G.M. MacKenzie and A.P. Irby - Edith Durham, Traveller and Publicist - Edith Durham as a Collector - Emily Balch: Balkan Traveller, Peace Worker and Nobel Laureate - The Work of British Medical Women in Serbia during and after the First World War - Captain Flora Sandes: A Case Study in the Social Construction of Gender in a Serbian Context - Rose Wilder Lane: 1886-1968 - Rebecca West, Gerda and the Sense of Process - Margaret Masson Hasluck - Louisa Rayner: An Englishwoman's Experiences in Wartime Yugoslavia - Mercia MacDermott: A Woman of the Frontier - An Anthropologist in the Village - Bucks, Brides and Useless Baggage: Women's Quest for a Role in their Balkan Travels - Constructing 'the Balkans' - Women Travellers in the Balkans: A Bibliographical Guide. John B. Allcock is head of the Research Unit in South East European Studies and is based in the Interdisciplinary Human Studies department at the University of Bradford; Antonia Young is a member of the Department for Sociology and Anthropology at Colgate University, New York

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John B. Allcock is head of the Research Unit in South East European Studies and is based in the Interdisciplinary Human Studies department at the University of Bradford; Antonia Young is a member of the Department for Sociology and Anthropology at Colgate University, New York

Product Details

• Paperback: 324 pages
• Publisher: Berghahn Books; 2 edition (January 1, 2000)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1571817441
• ISBN-13: 978-1571817440
• Product Dimensions: 8.4 x 5.5 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 13.4 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 1.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
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1.0 out of 5 stars Misleading, February 19, 2009

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This review is from: Black Lambs and Grey Falcons: Women Travelling in the Balkans (Paperback)

DO NOT BUY THIS BOOK! I bought this book because of its title, "Black Lamb(s) and Grey Falcon(s) - Women Travelling In The Balkans". WRONG. It had nothing to do with women "travelling" in the Balkans. Nothing written by Rebecca West or by any women who actually "travelled" in the Balkans. It rode on the fame of Rebecca West's book "Black Lamb and Grey Falcon" but Rebecca West only received a passing mention. There was no direct first hand information. No indirect second hand information either. It's only "reviews" and "opinions" by some unknown men and women, whose credentials are unknown, about the lives and writings of some women who had travelled to the Balkans. The title of this book should be "Editorials of People who Never Been to the Balkans about Women who did Go to the Balkans 100 Years Ago". And the writing quality is Extremely Poor. It's in the complex and twisted undisciplined "stream of consciousness" style with several ideas running on and on in the same sentence with each noun and verb decorated with several adjectives and adverbs and clauses not clearly defined and ideas not clearly separated while misrepresenting intelligence and depth with confusion and contortion and disguising illogical construction by layers of lyrical pretensions and confused literary writing. (Got the idea of the style?) How did it ever get published? Rebecca West's estate should sue the editors for misusing the title of her book and confusing the public thus harming her good name and hurting her reputation.